Spider Eaters is a beautifully written memoir. (See, I told you Nick had sparked an interest in me.) Its primary timeframe spans through the Cultural Revolution in China. The author, Rae Yang was a young woman at the time (a child really) who grew up under the series of reforms and campaigns under Mao Zedong’s […]
Month: May 2018
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time is a youth novel about a young girl and her brother. It’s definitely a family story and with Disney’s film adaptation hitting screens this year, I thought I might try and read it. I found it incredibly easy to read. It took me less than 24 hours but it is obviously […]
Gumption by Nick Offerman
One of my favorite people (Nick Offerman) writing about his favorite people (Eleanor Roosevelt, Willie Nelson, Yoko Ono, and more). It’s in a word: fantastic. It was a slower read for me mainly because I kept it in my bag to read in my brief periods of free time throughout the day. It’s great for […]